When you tap an item in a friends town, you get the same amount regardless of what you tap. Your friend gets what ever that building would have given them had it had a Dollar Sign, Cash Register or Restaurant Check above it when they tap the hand shake, makes no difference. However if you vandalize a friend they get money and experience that they would never be able to get otherwise and it helps them with their obedience rating (for cleaning up graphitti).When I go to a friends Springfield I look to see how many stars they have. If they have 4 or 4 1/2 stars that usually means that their obedience has dropped and I will tap Moe's, Springfield Elementary, Town Hall or the Police Station so they can get an obedience boost when they clean it up (it also gives them $$'s and XP that they otherwise could not get). But I do not spend a lot of time searching for those buildings. If they are at 5 stars I tap whatever.During events things are completely different though.Just my 2 cents.Happy tapping.

I tap anything I see first, I don't think it really matters but I try to avoid the spray paint at all costs cause it damages your righteousness rating.

hot4daryldixon wrote:I tap anything I see first, I don't think it really matters but I try to avoid the spray paint at all costs cause it damages your righteousness rating.It can damage your rating, but it improves your neighbor's when they clean it, plus they get money for a building they wouldn't have otherwise.Also, righteousness is easy to get back up. If you're able to build training walls, a bunch of them will protect you from any amount of tagging. And if you're a low level you can build your rating up by repeatedly catching Sideshow Bob in Other Springfield. He almost always starts out near the Squidport entrance, so as soon as you enter zip over there and get him. Then exit and go right back in. Do it while you're watching TV and you'll get to 5 stars in no time.

benb61 wrote:When you tap an item in a friends town, you get the same amount regardless of what you tap. Your friend gets what ever that building would have given them had it had a Dollar Sign, Cash Register or Restaurant Check above it when they tap the hand shake, makes no difference. However if you vandalize a friend they get money and experience that they would never be able to get otherwise and it helps them with their obedience rating (for cleaning up graphitti).When I go to a friends Springfield I look to see how many stars they have. If they have 4 or 4 1/2 stars that usually means that their obedience has dropped and I will tap Moe's, Springfield Elementary, Town Hall or the Police Station so they can get an obedience boost when they clean it up (it also gives them $$'s and XP that they otherwise could not get). But I do not spend a lot of time searching for those buildings. If they are at 5 stars I tap whatever.During events things are completely different though.Just my 2 cents.Happy tapping.I think you may mean to refer to righteousness rating instead of obedience. While it does increase slightly when you clean up graffiti in your own town, my understanding is that when your neighbour graffitis it decreases this rating more than the benefit of cleaning. According to tstoaddicts, both you and your neighbour will lose 5 points to righteouness when you graffiti. You only get one point when cleaning it up.Personally, I just hide training walls and the rating stays the same.

I like to tap things like Station 6, KBBL, bounce house, pretty much anything other than regular buildings. And I will go looking for buildings to graffiti. :twisted: Now, that being said, if I'm in a hurry then anything goes! :) One thing I'd caution you about is to NEVER tap anyone's corn. People will get down right irate if you do. :wink: I will only tap the farm if I see their crop has wilted, because that will bring it back to life for them.

Etiquette in tapping in neighbors town?

delegg629524
10 years ago
I will only spray a neighbor to mark my territory.
MamaLuck
10 years ago
nissa762 wrote:
MamaLuck wrote:
Ugh I'm confused about the spray paint thing lol. Is it good or bad for your neighbors for you to tap them?? It seems as though there are conflicting answers here regarding this.

The answer is kinda both.

Negative: It will drop the conform-o-meter rating for righteouness for both you and your neighbour. However this can fluctuate in ways it seems not everyone has figured out. You can prevent this by hiding training walls behind buildings in your town, so it's a negative you can avoid.

Positive: It gets buildings that otherwise wouldn't payout to drop cash and XP for your neighbour.

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Ok thank you for clearing this up and explaining it. :-)
Mirality
10 years ago
I'm a not-quite-so-recent-but-not-longtime tapper (just since CoC), and these are the rules I try to follow:

1. DON'T TAP CORN. EVER. Not even if there's nothing else.
2. Try not to tap any other crops, or the TV/Radio stations, or movie theatre. Those things require manual starting so it doesn't really benefit your neighbour if you tap them. But if there's absolutely nothing else to tap, go for it.
3. If you're high enough level to build training walls, then scatter about 10-15 through your town and then go for spraycans first. They're basically a net win for everyone as long as you have enough walls.
4. Try to avoid tapping anything with a short timer, eg. brown houses, gulp&blow, krustyburger, etc. There's nothing bad about it (and some neighbours make brown house farms specifically for you to tap) but your neighbour potentially gets a bit more benefit if you tap something with a long timer.

But additional to this is that most of the time you want to get through as quickly as possible -- partly to keep your visit times reasonably consistent but mostly because it takes a while to get through all your neighbours, and if you take too long you might be less likely to have time to do it every day. So partially trumping rules 3 & 4 is "just tap the first three things you see". Don't spend too much time looking for spraycans or long timers to tap. Short timer buildings are often easier to tap for that very reason.

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